Shadow World Quotes

“What was essential, insisted Gramsci, was to Marxize the INNER man. To secularize him to the point of godlessness. Only when that was done could you successfully dangle the utopia of the ‘Workers’ Paradise’ before his eyes, to be accepted in a peaceful and humanly agreeable manner, without revolution, violence or bloodshed.”
― Robert Chandler, Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, the Global New Left, and Radical Islam

“Gramsci set out to provide a revolutionary blueprint that would pervert the Roman Catholic Church’s values of goodness and forgiveness into a mind control tool in the hands of the new Marxists. He knew that the working classes were defined by their Christian faith and their Christian culture. Christianity, Gramsci recognized, blocked the way toward uprisings by the workers against the ruling class. No matter how strong might be their oppression, the working classes defined themselves in terms of their Christian faith. Christian culture liberated the working classes against even the most repressive secular abuses. While Gramsci shared the world views of Marx and Lenin concerning a future “workers paradise,” he knew that it had to come about in a wholly different way than through violent revolution.21 A high priority item for contemporary radical Leftists, therefore, is to destroy religion, a competitor for winning the “hearts and minds” necessary for Marxist revolution. For the Left, worship of God must be replaced by a worship of man, or “secular humanism.”
― Robert Chandler, Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, the Global New Left, and Radical Islam

“The modern-day ultra-Left ideology of “Cultural Marxism” takes yesterday’s Soviet Marxist-Leninist model and stands it on its head. Revolution on this alternative path no longer envisions a cataclysmic clash between workers and capitalists as the final act. Rather, contemporary revolutionary doctrine is far more dangerous: it is based on a nonviolent, persistent, and “quiet” transformation of American traditions, families, education, media, and support institutions day-by-day. The seizure of political and economic power remains a key objective, but this “final act” is really a first step in transforming the existing cultural order.”
― Robert Chandler, Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, the Global New Left, and Radical Islam

“Critical Theory’s influence on the New Left in the late 1960s and 1970s ensured that American society would be infected by this Marxist malignancy. While it addressed many aspects of social structure, Critical Theory, in the final analysis, proposed activities that would transform society into one far more amenable to Marxism. Critical Theory’s “struggle for social change” was an important step in undermining the values, structures, and practices of America’s free market and democratic principles.”
― Robert Chandler, Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, the Global New Left, and Radical Islam

“The political, economic, social, and cultural realities in the early twenty-first century, as compared to the late 1960s may differ in detail, but the over-all progressive-socialist-marxist goal of transforming American culture and destroying the existing form of constitutional democratic government from within remains unchanged.”
― Robert Chandler, Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, the Global New Left, and Radical Islam